top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-08

Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

https://hawaiigentech.com/post/commentary/why-i-link-to-waybackmachine-instead/

5 years ago

578 upvotes – 248 comments

Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 277 comments

FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ftc-is-investigating-intuit-over-turbotax-practices

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 194 comments

PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence

https://savepandadoc.org/en/

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 192 comments

I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411333

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 207 comments

Non-Posix File Systems

https://weinholt.se/articles/non-posix-filesystems/

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 155 comments

Assange Hearing Day 6

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-the-assange-hearing-day-6

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 241 comments

GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/01/gdpr-violation-scribd-acquires-pii-on-500m-users-in-a-deal-with-linkedin/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 124 comments

On finally learning to program at the age of 40

https://github.com/Dhghomon/programming_at_40/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 161 comments

Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-3-the-evidence?postId=5f4e8bf673d853002ded6cd3

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

https://cloud.titanoboa.io/index.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 79 comments

Is the web getting slower?

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/is-the-web-getting-slower

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 263 comments

AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/08/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-study-put-on-hold-due-to-suspected-adverse-reaction-in-participant-in-the-u-k/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 223 comments

Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-countersues-fortnite-maker-epic-games-seeking-to-halt-in-app-payments-11599592017

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 595 comments

U.S. to block cotton, tomato product imports from Xinjiang over forced labor

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-xinjiang/u-s-to-block-cotton-tomato-product-imports-from-chinas-xinjiang-over-forced-labor-cbp-idUSKBN25Z29N

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 158 comments

Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/08/pharma-pledge-reassure-covid-19-safety/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 321 comments

'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-wild-west-mentality-lingers-modern.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 293 comments

Tell HN: My HN app is rejected by Apple for showing Covid-related submissions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 64 comments

ProtonDrive Security Model

https://protonmail.com/blog/protondrive-security/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 106 comments

Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage

https://gravitricity.com/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 279 comments

A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 123 comments

Chef to be acquired by Progress

https://blog.chef.io/the-fourth-chapter-of-chef-has-arrived-progress-to-purchase-chef/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 143 comments

The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54055669

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 157 comments

New things in Android 11

https://blog.google/products/android/android-11

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 279 comments

OpenJDK is now on GitHub

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004694.html

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 51 comments

Tesla can detect aftermarket hacks designed to defeat EV performance paywalls

https://www.thedrive.com/news/35946/tesla-can-detect-aftermarket-hacks-designed-to-defeat-ev-performance-paywalls

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 183 comments

The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files

https://web.dev/native-file-system/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 149 comments

Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/games/sid-meier-interview-civilisation-memoir-autobiography-b404968.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 173 comments

Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning (2015)

https://timdettmers.com/2015/03/26/convolution-deep-learning/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

Inkscape 1.0.1

https://inkscape.org/news/2020/09/06/inkscape-version-101-patches-crashes-bugs/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Adam Curry launches a new, open podcast directory

https://podnews.net/update/podcast-index-open-directory

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 134 comments

Escape from Creek Fire

https://www.jmeshe.co/escape-from-creek-fire

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 76 comments

Is anybody still using Windows 95?

https://www.quora.com/Is-anybody-still-using-Windows-95-in-2019/answer/Thomas-Tydal?share=1

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 339 comments

TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/tiktok-wechat

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 116 comments

Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less worthy

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/journalists-perceive-stories-published-in-local-news-outlets-to-be-less-newsworthy/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 48 comments

The Treachery of Image Files

http://beyondloom.com/blog/images.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1L2WgXu2JY

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

Largest multi-city traffic dataset available

https://utd19.ethz.ch/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments

https://blog.saeloun.com/2020/08/31/ruby-adds-experimental-rightward-assignment

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 163 comments

URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/DeFactoQueryParameters

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24408324

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 98 comments

Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3

https://medium.com/swlh/gpt3-empowered-recommendation-system-ba4bad29276b

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412687

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 63 comments

The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01269

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Remotely Controlled Escape Room

https://www.thebureauorlando.com/remote-games

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

If high street shopping was like online shopping [video]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083mv25

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data

https://terminusdb.com/hub/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

At Least 37M People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/09/08/business/08reuters-tesla-stocks.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 160 comments

Verne Edquist – Glenn Gould’s Piano Man

https://www.glenngould.ca/verne-edquist/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05300

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jeremy Howard

https://www.wandb.com/podcast/jeremy-howard

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL

https://www.dataspeeder.com

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

The Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

https://lithub.com/inside-the-intricate-translation-process-for-a-murakami-novel/

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

Radio Engineer Files Objection to WIPE

http://drmnainfo.blogspot.com/2020/09/radio-engineer-files-objection-to-wipe.html

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/expanding-google-clouds-confidential-computing-portfolio

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Most Pedestrian Infrastructure Is for Drivers

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/09/07/op-ed-why-most-pedestrian-infrastructure-is-really-for-drivers/

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

State of Cybersecurity Industry Exposure at Dark Web

https://www.immuniweb.com/blog/state-cybersecurity-dark-web-exposure.html

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments
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